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light flurries to blinding storms. The earliest snow recorded in 

 any year was that of October 10, 1906, and the latest, at the ending 

 of winter, was a light snow, sufficient, however, to whiten roofs, 

 of May 4, 1907. The last snow of the winter of 1898-1899 was 

 on March 31; the snowy period of the winter of 1899-1900 was 

 from November 2 to April 12 ; that of 1900-1901 from November 

 7 to April 21. Records for the fall of 1901 are incomplete, the first 

 snow recorded being on December 9, and the latest of the spring 

 of 1902 on April 12. The first snow of the winter of 1902-3 was 

 November 26, and the latest April 3. The record for the winter 

 of 1904-1905 is incomplete; the earliest snow in the fall was on 

 November 8, but there are no records for the following spring. 

 For the autumn of 1905 an especially heavy snow occurred Novem- 

 ber 25. In the fall of 1906 a very heavy snow began October 10, 

 and continued until 10 inches fell. This is the earliest and most 

 noteworthy snowfall shown by our records. The latest snow in 

 the spring of 1907, as already stated, was on May 4. The winter 

 of 1906-1907 is, therefore, noteworthy in that it had both the 

 earliest and the latest snowfall in the years covered by our records. 



The first snow in the fall of 1913 came on the night of October 

 21 ; the next on the evening of October 29. It snowed again on 

 November 8 and 10, a total of 12 inches falling, and drifting con- 

 siderably, but all disappearing by the 18th. No more fell until 

 December 7 when it snowed all day. On the 20th about one inch 

 fell, and on the 22d there was snow and rain. On January 2, 

 1914, it snowed all day but melted as rapidly. Snow fell on the 

 3d and 4th and again all day on the 31st, when the first sleighing 

 was possible. 



Depth of snow: — Most of the snowstorms recorded were rather 

 light flurries, with less than ^ inch of snowfall. Records of 1, 2, 

 and 3 inches of snowfall are fairly frequent. There are 2 rec- 

 ords of 4 inches each, one each of 5^, 6, and 7 inches, 2 of 10 

 inches, and one of the maximum snowfall of 18 inches, which was 

 recorded for March 5 and 6, 1899. 



Direction of snoivstorms: — Record of the direction from which 

 the heavier snowstorms came was kept. Of such a record for 

 33 storms, 5 came from the north, 7 from the northeast, 3 from 

 the east, 2 from the southeast, 1 from the south, 5 from the south- 

 west, 1 from the west and 9 from the northwest, thus showing 

 the northwest to be the prevailing direction from which snows 

 come, the northeast being a rather close second. The northeast 

 storms hang on longer, and the snows they bring are generally sup- 



